West Jordan News

An elite search and rescue team in Utah was put on alert this week after a tornado blew through Oklahoma on Monday.

West Jordan A More than a year after the body of 6-year-old Sierra Newbold was found in a West Jordan canal, prosecutors will present evidence in court against the man accused of raping and killing the little girl.

The wife of a man who allegedly prompted a shooting inside the West Valley City Police Department lobby in April told detectives her husband went to the police department with an unloaded handgun because he wanted "someone to kill him because he didn't have the guts to do it himself." James Kammeyer, who was wounded but not killed, has been charged ... (more)

So since June 25th, 2012 , I've been working at the LDS Church-owned second-hand thrift store Deseret Industries as a large item and clothes associate, as well as a cashier.

On Wednesday, the West Jordan City Council will discuss changing the mayor's position from part-time to full-time without changing the city's current form of government.

On April 30, Michaela Kerby and Brittney Marriott disappeared from their West Jordan, Utah homes.

Curbside green-waste recycling is scheduled to begin next year on a subscription basis in Salt Lake Valley communities served by the Wasatch Front Waste and Recycling District .

A West Jordan man charged with selling a Viagra-like drug as a natural supplement has pleaded guilty to charges in two separate federal indictments.

A rare piece of World War II history is in West Jordan for a week. One of the remaining 13 flyable B-17 bombers is at the South Valley Regional Airport in West Jordan.

West Jordan a As 88-year-old World War II veteran Paul Sersland got off the historic B-17 bomber Monday at the South Valley Regional Airport, he bent over and kissed the ground.

West Jordan a On a recent weekday just before 5 p.m. - when you'd expect them to be most crowded before homeward-bound commuters start arriving - two large garages at the Jordan Valley TRAX station sit mostly empty.

The West Jordan Community Resource Center opened its doors Monday at City Hall in an effort to provide domestic violence outreach.

Residents escaped unharmed from the fire at 7529 S. 4950 West, but the flames, smoke and subsequent water damage to the house, its attached garage and two vehicles parked inside reportedly approached $200,000. Public safety dispatchers say the first alarm came at 4:17 a.m. and arriving West Jordan fire crews called a second alarm upon arrival, ... (more)

Katie Burke and her husband, Gregory Burke, have been happily married for three years.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, May 14-15, from 5 to 9 p.m., children 7 and older are invited to try out for roles in Merrill Osmond's Youth Pioneer Pageant, a musical celebration that runs July 22-24. Auditions will be at Concordia Preparatory School, 12723 S. Park Ave., Riverton.

West Jordan Mountain America Credit Union's electronic mortgage process now allows prospective homebuyers to apply for their mortgages online, uploading all key application documents such as paystubs and tax information via their own computers.

"We did see this coming. We already knew that there were issues and problems because of the internal audits and the things that we do to police our own department," the interim chief of the embattled West Valley Police Department told the Deseret News Wednesday.

The Sandy Amphitheater will host the Mountain West Ballet company's production of Alice in Wonderland.

Utah's horse communities have a lot going on this week. The NBHA barrel races will take place tonight with their usual Wednesday night run at the Golden Spike event center in Ogden.

Police are praising a gas station employee who likely kept a scary situation from becoming much worse after a traffic accident ignited a gas pump.